Just to summarize Pfahl's story once more. This was the accusation:
The former CSU politician and state secretary in the Kohl government is said to have received 3.8 million marks, or approximately two million euros in bribes from Schreiber for a tank deal with Saudi Arabia in 1991 and not declared it for tax purposes.
And this is the deal:
Pfahls and his defense reached an agreement with the court: For an admission of guilt at the beginning of the trial, in which the 62-year-old Pfahls admitted the payments from the arms lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber, the defendant was promised a maximum sentence of two years and three months and the possibility of early release after serving half of the sentence.
Who else besides me has the impression that the higher the amounts involved, the more trivial the punishment? All are equal before the law? Forget it.
Although I seriously wonder why I expected anything different after Kohl got away with breaking his oath of office without major problems - and people accuse me of being a cynic - reality regularly surpasses me by far ...